Publications

Recent publications of project members regarding foodborne and waterborne enteric viruses, AMR and SARS-CoV-2:

Chigor, V. N., Digwo, D. C., Adediji, A., Chidebelu, P. E., Chigor, C. B., Ugwu, K. O., Ibangha, I. I., Street, R., & Farkas, K. (2024). Epidemiology of norovirus infection in Nigeria: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Archives of virology, 169(7), 138. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00705-024-06056-w

Jones DL, Bridgman M, Pellett C, Weightman AJ, Kille P, García Delgado Á, Cross G, Cobley S, Howard-Jones H, Chadwick DR and Farkas K (2024) Use of wastewater from passenger ships to assess the movement of COVID-19 and other pathogenic viruses across maritime international boundaries. Frontiers in Public Health 12:1377996. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2024.1377996

Knight ME, Webster G, Perry WB, Baldwin A, Rushton L, Pass DA, Cross G, Durance I, Muziasari W, Kille P, Farkas K, Weightman AJ, Jones DL (2024) National-scale antimicrobial resistance surveillance in wastewater: A comparative analysis of HT qPCR and metagenomic approaches. Water Research 262, 121989. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2024.121989.

Cameron Pellett, Kata Farkas, Rachel C. Williams, Matthew J. Wade, Andrew J. Weightman, Eleanor Jameson, Gareth Cross, Davey L. Jones (2024) Multi-factor normalisation of viral counts from wastewater improves the detection accuracy of viral disease in the community. Environmental Technology & Innovation 36, 103720.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eti.2024.103720.

Oliver, D.M., Metcalf, R., Jones, D.L., Matallana-Surget, S., Thomas, D.N., Robins, P., Tulloch, C.L., Cotterell, B.M., Williams, G., ChristieOleza, J.A., Quilliam, R.S., (2024) Plastic pollution and human pathogens: towards a conceptual shift in risk management at bathing water and beach environments. Water Research 122028. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2024.122028

Tulloch, C. L., Bargiela, R., Williams, G. B., Chernikova, T. N., Cotterell, B. M., Wellington, E. M. H., Christie-Oleza, J., Thomas, D. N., Jones, D. L., & Golyshin, P. N. (2024). Microbial communities colonising plastics during transition from the wastewater treatment plant to marine waters. Environmental microbiome, 19(1), 27. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40793-024-00569-2

Tulloch, C. L., Cotterell, B. M., Pântea, I., Jones, D. L., & Golyshin, P. N. (2024). Selective microbial attachment to LDPE plastic beads during passage through the wastewater network. Chemosphere, 142618. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2024.142618

Williams, R. C., Perry, W. B., Lambert-Slosarska, K., Futcher, B., Pellett, C., Richardson-O’Neill, I., Paterson, S., Grimsley, J. M. S., Wade, M. J., Weightman, A. J., Farkas, K., & Jones, D. L. (2024). Examining the stability of viral RNA and DNA in wastewater: Effects of storage time, temperature, and freeze-thaw cycles. Water research, 259, 121879. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2024.121879

Williams, R. C., Farkas, K., Garcia-Delgado, A., Adwan, L., Kevill, J. L., Cross, G., Weightman, A. J., & Jones, D. L. (2024). Simultaneous detection and characterization of common respiratory pathogens in wastewater through genomic sequencing. Water research, 256, 121612. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2024.121612

Farkas, K., Kevill, J. L., Williams, R. C., Pântea, I., Ridding, N., Lambert-Slosarska, K., Woodhall, N., Grimsley, J. M. S., Wade, M. J., Singer, A. C., Weightman, A. J., Cross, G., & Jones, D. L. (2024). Comparative assessment of Nanotrap and polyethylene glycol-based virus concentration in wastewater samples. FEMS microbes, 5, xtae007. https://doi.org/10.1093/femsmc/xtae007

Farkas, K., Mannion, F., Sorby, R., Winterbourn, B., Allender, S., Gregory, C. G. M., Holding, P., Thorpe, J. M., Malham, S. K., & Le Vay, L. (2024). Assessment of wastewater derived pollution using viral monitoring in two estuaries. Marine pollution bulletin, 200, 116081. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2024.116081

Paul B.L. George, Luke S. Hillary, Samantha Leclerc, Emily C. Cooledge, Joanie Lemieux, Caroline Duchaine, and Davey L. Jones. Needles in haystacks: monitoring the potential escape of bioaerosolised antibacterial resistance genes from wastewater treatment plants with air and phyllosphere sampling. Canadian Journal of Microbiology. e-First https://doi.org/10.1139/cjm-2023-0226

Farkas, K., Kevill, J. L., Adwan, L., Garcia-Delgado, A., Dzay, R., Grimsley, J. M. S., Lambert-Slosarska, K., Wade, M. J., Williams, R. C., Martin, J., Drakesmith, M., Song, J., McClure, V., & Jones, D. L. (2024). Near-source passive sampling for monitoring viral outbreaks within a university residential setting. Epidemiology and infection, 152, e31. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0950268824000190

Perry, W.B., Chrispim, M.C, Funada Barbosa, M.R., de Souza Lauretto, M., Razzolini, M., C. Nardocci, A.C., Jones, O., Jones, D.L., Weightman, A.J., Zanoli Sato, M.I., Montagner, C., Durance, I., 2024. Cross-continental comparative experiences of wastewater surveillance and a vision for the 21st Century. Science of the Total Environment in press.

Jameson, E., Ellison, A (2024) One Health Comic on Wastewater Based Epidemiology. 

Leoni Kevill, J., Farkas, K., Ridding, N., Woodhall, N., Malham, S.K., Jones, D.L., 2024. Use of Viability-qPCR for Assessing Viral Capsid Integrity in Wastewater. Viruses 16, 40. https://doi.org/10.3390/v16010040

Nan, X., Hardinge, P., Hoehn, S. et al. (2023) VarLOCK: sequencing-independent, rapid detection of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern for point-of-care testing, qPCR pipelines and national wastewater surveillance. Scientific Reports 13, 20832. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-47289-0

Jones, D.L. (2023) House of Commons, Welsh Affairs Committee, Oral evidence: Water Quality in Wales, HC 104.

Farkas, K., Pântea, I., Woodhall, N., Williamsn, D., Lambert-Slosarska, K., Williams, R.C., Grimsley, J.M.S., Singer, A.C., Jones, D.L., 2023. Diurnal changes in pathogenic and indicator virus concentrations in wastewater. Environ Sci Pollut Res (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-023-30381-3

Alex-Sanders, N., Woodhall, N., Farkas, K., Scott, G., Jones, D.L., Walker, D.I., (2023) Development and validation of a duplex RT-qPCR assay for norovirus quantification in wastewater samples.Journal of Virological Methods 321, 114804. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jviromet.2023.114804

Kathryn Lambert-Slosarska (2023) Use of passive samplers for the capture of SARS-CoV-2 and other viruses from wastewater. Masters thesis, Bangor University.

Keshaviah, A., Diamond, M.B., Wade, M.J., Scarpino, S.V. and the Global Wastewater Action Group involving Jones, D.L. (2023) Wastewater monitoring can anchor global disease surveillance systems. Lancet Global Health 11, 976-981. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(23)00170-5

Chigor, V. N., Chidebelu, P. E., Digwo, D. C., Chigor, C. B., Nwagwu, A. U., Udeh, O. S., Oguonu, C. I., Dibua, M.-E. U., & Farkas, K. (2023). Assessment of the aetiology of acute gastroenteritis outbreaks in infants reveals rotavirus, noroviruses and adenovirus prevalence and viral coinfections in Nsukka, Nigeria. VirusDisease. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13337-023-00821-2

Jones, D. L., Rhymes, J. M., Green, E., Rimmer, C., Kevill, J. L., Malham, S. K., Weightman, A. J., & Farkas, K. (2023). Poor Air passenger knowledge of COVID-19 symptoms and behaviour undermines strategies aimed at preventing the import of SARS-COV-2 into the UK. Scientific Reports, 13(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-30654-4

Kasprzyk-Hordern, B., Sims, N., Farkas, K., Jagadeesan, K., Proctor, K., Wade, M. J., & Jones, D. L. (2023). Wastewater-based epidemiology for Comprehensive Community Health Diagnostics in a national surveillance study: Mining biochemical markers in wastewater. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 130989. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2023.130989

Welsh Government (2023) Example of our Wastewater SARS-CoV-2 Variants of Concern weekly report.

Farkas, K., Williams, R., Alex-Sanders, N., Grimsley, J. M., Pântea, I., Wade, M. J., Woodhall, N., & Jones, D. L. (2023). Wastewater-based monitoring of SARS-COV-2 at UK airports and its potential role in international public health surveillance. PLOS Global Public Health, 3(1). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0001346

Robins, P.E., Dickson, N., Kevill, J.L., Malham, S.K., Singer, A.C., Quilliam, R.S., Jones, D.L. (2022) Predicting the dispersal of SARS-CoV-2 RNA from the wastewater treatment plant to the coast. Helyion 8, e10547. DOI:10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e10547

Farkas, K., Pellett, C., Williams, R., Alex-Sanders, N., Bassano, I., Brown, M. R., Denise, H., Grimsley, J. M., Kevill, J. L., Khalifa, M. S., Pântea, I., Story, R., Wade, M. J., Woodhall, N., & Jones, D. L. (2023). Rapid assessment of SARS-COV-2 variant-associated mutations in wastewater using real-time RT-PCR. Microbiology Spectrum. https://doi.org/10.1128/spectrum.03177-22

Wilde, H., Perry, W.B., Jones, O., Kille, P., Weightman, A., Jones, D.L., Cross, G., Durance, I. (2022) Accounting for Dilution of SARS-CoV-2 in Wastewater Samples Using Physico-Chemical Markers. Water 14, 2885. DOI:10.3390/w14182885

Brunner, F. S., Brown, M. R., Bassano, I., Denise, H., Khalifa, M. S., Wade, M. J., van Aerle, R., Kevill, J. L., Jones, D. L., Farkas, K., Jeffries, A. R., Cairns, E., Wierzbicki, C., & Paterson, S. (2022). City-wide wastewater genomic surveillance through the successive emergence of SARS-COV-2 alpha and Delta variants. Water Research, 226, 119306. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2022.119306

Jones, D. L., Grimsley, J. M., Kevill, J. L., Williams, R., Pellett, C., Lambert-Slosarska, K., Singer, A. C., Williams, G. B., Bargiela, R., Brown, R. W., Wade, M. J., & Farkas, K. (2022). Critical evaluation of different passive sampler materials and approaches for the recovery of SARS-COV-2, faecal-indicator viruses and bacteria from wastewater. Water, 14(21), 3568. https://doi.org/10.3390/w14213568

Jones, D. L., Rhymes, J. M., Wade, M. J., Kevill, J. L., Malham, S. K., Grimsley, J. M. S., Rimmer, C., Weightman, A. J., & Farkas, K. (2023). Suitability of aircraft wastewater for Pathogen Detection and Public Health Surveillance. Science of The Total Environment, 856, 159162. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.159162

Robins, K., Leonard, A. F., Farkas, K., Graham, D. W., Jones, D. L., Kasprzyk-Hordern, B., Bunce, J. T., Grimsley, J. M., Wade, M. J., Zealand, A. M., & McIntyre-Nolan, S. (2022). Research needs for optimising wastewater-based epidemiology monitoring for Public Health Protection. Journal of Water and Health, 20(9), 1284–1313. https://doi.org/10.2166/wh.2022.026

Farkas, K., Pellett, C., Alex-Sanders, N., Bridgman, M. T., Corbishley, A., Grimsley, J. M., Kasprzyk-Hordern, B., Kevill, J. L., Pântea, I., Richardson-O’Neill, I. S., Lambert-Slosarska, K., Woodhall, N., & Jones, D. L. (2022). Comparative assessment of filtration- and precipitation-based methods for the concentration of SARS-COV-2 and other viruses from wastewater. Microbiology Spectrum, 10(4). https://doi.org/10.1128/spectrum.01102-22

Kevill, J. L., Lambert-Slosarska, K., Pellett, C., Woodhall, N., Richardson-O’Neill, I., Pântea, I., Alex-Sanders, N., Farkas, K., & Jones, D. L. (2022). Assessment of two types of passive sampler for the efficient recovery of SARS-COV-2 and other viruses from wastewater. Science of The Total Environment, 838, 156580. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.156580

Wastewater Monitoring in Wales, National COVID-19 Report (released every week). Example: Report Date: 17 March 2022. Welsh Government.

Tlhagale, M., Liphadzi, S., … Jones, D.L. (2022) Establishment of local wastewater-based surveillance programmes in response to the spread and infection of COVID-19-case studies from South Africa, the Netherlands, Turkey and England. Journal or Water and Health 20, 287–299. https://doi.org/10.2166/wh.2022.185

Adriaenssens, E. M., Farkas, K., McDonald, J. E., Jones, D. L., Allison, H. E., & McCarthy, A. J. (2021). Tracing the fate of wastewater viruses reveals catchment-scale virome diversity and connectivity. Water research, 203, 117568. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2021.117568

Fitzgerald, S. F., Rossi, G., Low, A. S., McAteer, S. P., O’Keefe, B., Findlay, D., Cameron, G. J., Pollard, P., Singleton, P., Ponton, G., Singer, A. C., Farkas, K., Jones, D., Graham, D. W., Quintela-Baluja, M., Tait-Burkard, C., Gally, D. L., Kao, R., & Corbishley, A. (2021). Site Specific Relationships between COVID-19 Cases and SARS-CoV-2 Viral Load in Wastewater Treatment Plant Influent. Environmental Science & Technology, 55(22), 15276–15286. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.1c05029

Singer, A.C., Jones, D.L. (2022) Testing sewage has helped track COVID – soon it could reveal much more about the UK’s health. The Conversation 23-03-2022

Kevill, J., Pellett, C., Farkas, K., Brown, M., Bassano, I., Denise, H., McDonald, J., Malham, S., Porter, J., Warren, J., Evens, N., Paterson, S., Singer, A. and Jones, D. (2022) A comparison of precipitation and filtration-based SARS-CoV-2 recovery methods and the influence of temperature, turbidity, and surfactant load in urban wastewater. Science of The Total Environment, 808: 151916. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.151916

Wade, M., Lo Jacomo, A., Armenise, E., Brown, M., Bunce, J., Cameron, G., Fang, Z., Farkas, K., Gilpin, D., Graham, D., Grimsley, J., Hart, A., Hoffmann, T., Jackson, K., Jones, D., Lilley, C., McGrath, J., McKinley, J., McSparron, C., Nejad, B., Morvan, M., Quintela-Baluja, M., Roberts, A., Singer, A., Souque, C., Speight, V., Sweetapple, C., Walker, D., Watts, G., Weightman, A. and Kasprzyk-Hordern, B. (2021) Understanding and managing uncertainty and variability for wastewater monitoring beyond the pandemic: Lessons learned from the United Kingdom national COVID-19 surveillance programmes. Journal of Hazardous Materials 424:127456. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2021.127456

Welsh Government COVID-19 Technical Advisory Group (2021) Mitigating risks of increased COVID-19 transmission during elections. https://www.gov.wales/technical-advisory-group-mitigating-risks-increased-covid-19-transmission-during-elections

Welsh Government COVID-19 Technical Advisory Group (2021) SARS-CoV-2 transmission risk in public toilets. https://www.gov.wales/technical-advisory-group-sars-cov-2-transmission-risk-public-toilets

Welsh Government COVID-19 Technical Advisory Group (2021) COVID-19 evidence associated with transmission and potential risks associated with religious activities and places of worship. https://www.gov.wales/technical-advisory-group-covid-19-evidence-associated-transmission-and-potential-risks-associated

Welsh Government COVID-19 Technical Advisory Group (2021) review advice on communal singing and chanting, including wind instruments and pipe organs. https://www.gov.wales/technical-advisory-group-review-advice-communal-singing-and-chanting-including-wind-instruments-and

Welsh Government COVID-19 Technical Advisory Group (2021) plastic screens in taxis and private hire vehicles. https://www.gov.wales/technical-advisory-group-plastic-screens-taxis-and-private-hire-vehicles

Welsh Government COVID-19 Technical Advisory Group (2021) use of face coverings in childcare and educational settings for Under 18s. https://www.gov.wales/technical-advisory-group-use-face-coverings-childcare-and-educational-settings-under-18s

Welsh Government COVID-19 Technical Advisory Group (2021) advice for nightclubs and adult entertainment venues. https://www.gov.wales/technical-advisory-group-advice-nightclubs-and-adult-entertainment-venues

Welsh Government COVID-19 Technical Advisory Group (2021) evidence review of ozone generators including appropriateness as mitigation in classrooms. https://www.gov.wales/technical-advisory-group-evidence-review-ozone-generators-including-appropriateness-mitigation

Welsh Government COVID-19 Technical Advisory Group (2022) reducing COVID-19 transmission in schools and colleges: the role of air cleaning devices amongst other mitigations. https://www.gov.wales/technical-advisory-group-reducing-covid-19-transmission-schools-and-colleges-role-air-cleaning

Welsh Government COVID-19 Technical Advisory Group (2022) Consensus statement on face masks for the public. https://www.gov.wales/technical-advisory-group-consensus-statement-face-masks-public

Welsh Government COVID-19 Technical Advisory Group (2022) Wastewater monitoring: 19 May 2022. https://www.gov.wales/wastewater-monitoring-19-may-2022

Dancer, S., Li, Y., Hart, A., Tang, J., Jones, D.L. (2021) What is the risk of acquiring SARS-CoV-2 from the use of public toilets? The Science of the Total Environment 792:148341. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.148341

Farkas, K., Green, E., Rigby, D. Cross, P., Tyrrel, S., Malham, S.K., Jones, D.L. (2021) Investigating awareness, fear and control associated with norovirus and other pathogens and pollutants using best–worst scaling. Scientific Reports 11,11194. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-90704-7

Hillary, L. S., Farkas, K., Maher, K. H., Lucaci, A., Thorpe, J., Distaso, M. A., Gaze, W. H., Paterson, S., Burke, T., Connor, T. R., McDonald, J. E., Malham, S. K., & Jones, D. L. (2021). Monitoring SARS-CoV-2 in municipal wastewater to evaluate the success of lockdown measures for controlling COVID-19 in the UK. Water Research, 117214. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2021.117214

Bashawri, YM (2021) Impact of Sediment Concentration on the Survival of Wastewater-Derived bla(CTX-M-15)-Producing E. coli, and the Implications for Dispersal into Estuarine Waters. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17, 7608. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17207608

Polo, D., et al. (2020) Making waves: Wastewater-based epidemiology for COVID-19-approaches and challenges for surveillance and prediction. Water Research 186, 116404. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2020.116404

Farkas, K., Hillary, LS., Thorpe, J., Walker, DI., Lowther, JA., McDonald, JE., Malham, SK, Jones DL  (2021) Concentration and Quantification of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in Wastewater Using Polyethylene Glycol-Based Concentration and qRT-PCR. Methods and Protocols 4, 17. https://doi.org/10.3390/mps4010017

Wade, M., et al. (2020) Wastewater COVID-19 monitoring in the UK: summary for SAGE – 19 November 2020. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/defrajbc-wastewater-covid-19-monitoring-in-the-uk-summary-19-november-2020

Jones, D.L., Baluja, M.Q., Graham, D.W., et al. (2020) Shedding of SARS-CoV-2 in feces and urine and its potential role in person-to-person transmission and the environment-based spread of COVID-19. Science of the Total Environment 749, 141364. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.141364 

Ahmed, W., Bertsch, P., Bivins, A., Bibby, K., Farkas, K., Gathercole, A., … & Mueller, J. (2020). Comparison of virus concentration methods for the RT-qPCR-based recovery of murine hepatitis virus, a surrogate for SARS-CoV-2 from untreated wastewater. Science of the Total Environment, 739, 139960. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.139960

Farkas, K., Hillary, L. S., Malham, S. K., McDonald, J. E., & Jones, D. L. (2020). Wastewater and public health: the potential of wastewater surveillance for monitoring COVID-19. Current Opinion in Environmental Science & Health. 17, 14-20. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coesh.2020.06.001

Bivins, A., North, D., Ahmad, A., Ahmed, W., Alm, E., Been, F., … & Buttiglieri, G. (2020). Wastewater-Based Epidemiology: Global Collaborative to Maximize Contributions in the Fight Against COVID-19. Environmental Science and Technology, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.0c02388

Farkas, K., Walker, D. I., Adriaenssens, E. M., McDonald, J. E., Hillary, L. S., Malham, S. K., & Jones, D. L. (2020). Viral indicators for tracking domestic wastewater contamination in the aquatic environment. Water Research, 181, 115926. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2020.115926

UK Government TWEG (2020) Environmental monitoring of viral presence, infectivity and transmission of SARS-CoV-2 https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/tweg-environmental-monitoring-of-viral-presence-infectivity-and-transmission-of-sars-cov-2-3-december-2020

UK Government EMG/SPI-B/TWEG (2020) Mitigations to reduce transmission of the new variant SARS-CoV-2 virus, 22 December 2020 https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/emgspi-btweg-mitigations-to-reduce-transmission-of-the-new-variant-sars-cov-2-virus-22-december-2020

UK Government TWEG (2020) Evidence of wider environmental transmission of SARS-CoV-2, 12 June 2020 https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/tweg-evidence-of-wider-environmental-transmission-of-sars-cov-2-12-june-2020

Welsh Government COVID-19 Technical Advisory Group (2020) swimming pools, hot tubs, saunas and steam rooms and risk from COVID-19. https://www.gov.wales/technical-advisory-group-swimming-pools-hot-tubs-saunas-and-steam-rooms-and-risk-covid-19

Welsh Government COVID-19 Technical Advisory Group (2020) SARS-CoV-2 infection risks at ice rinks. https://www.gov.wales/technical-advisory-group-sars-cov-2-infection-risks-ice-rinks

Welsh Government COVID-19 Technical Advisory Group (2020) SARS-CoV-2 infection risks at indoor exercise facilities. https://www.gov.wales/technical-advisory-group-sars-cov-2-infection-risks-indoor-exercise-facilities

Welsh Government COVID-19 Technical Advisory Group (2020) current evidence relating to weddings. https://www.gov.wales/technical-advisory-group-current-evidence-relating-weddings

Welsh Government COVID-19 Technical Advisory Group (2020) air cleaning devices. https://www.gov.wales/technical-advisory-group-air-cleaning-devices

Welsh Government COVID-19 Technical Advisory Group (2020) Surveillance approaches to determine the risk, frequency and origin of SARS-CoV-2 entry into UK airports. https://www.gov.wales/technical-advisory-group-surveillance-approaches-determine-risk-frequency-and-origin-sars-cov-2

Farkas, K., Mannion, F., Hillary, L. S., Malham, S. K., & Walker, D. I. (2020). Emerging technologies for the rapid detection of enteric viruses in the aquatic environment. Current Opinion in Environmental Science & Health. 16, 1-6. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coesh.2020.01.007

Robins, P. E., Farkas, K., Cooper, D., Malham, S. K., & Jones, D. L. (2019). Viral dispersal in the coastal zone: A method to quantify water quality risk. Environment International, 126, 430-442. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2019.02.042

Farkas, K., Adriaenssens, E.M., Walker, D.I. et al. (2019) Critical Evaluation of CrAssphage as a Molecular Marker for Human-Derived Wastewater Contamination in the Aquatic Environment. Food and Environmental Virology. 11, 113-119. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12560-019-09369-1

Lowther, J. A., Cross, L., Stapleton, T., Gustar, N. E., Walker, D. I., Sills, M., … & Lees, D. N. (2019). Use of F-Specific RNA Bacteriophage to Estimate Infectious Norovirus Levels in Oysters. Food and Environmental Virology, 11(3), 247-258. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12560-019-09383-3

Walker, D. I., Cross, L. J., Stapleton, T. A., Jenkins, C. L., Lees, D. N., & Lowther, J. A. (2019). Assessment of the Applicability of Capsid-Integrity Assays for Detecting Infectious Norovirus Inactivated by Heat or UV Irradiation. Food and environmental virology, 11(3), 229-237. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12560-019-09390-4

Farkas, K., Marshall, M., Cooper, D., McDonald, J., Malham, S., Peters, D., Maloney, J., Jones, D. (2018) Seasonal and diurnal surveillance of treated and untreated wastewater for human enteric viruses. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-018-3261-y

Farkas, K., McDonald, J.E., Malham, S.K., Jones, D.L. (2018) Two-Step Concentration of Complex Water Samples for the Detection of Viruses. Methods and Protocols. 1, 35. https://doi.org/10.3390/mps1030035

Adriaenssens, E., Farkas, K., Harrison, C., Jones, D.L., Allison, H.E., McCarthy, A.J. (2018) Viromic analysis of wastewater input to a river catchment reveals a diverse assemblage of RNA viruses. mSystems. https://doi.org/10.1128/mSystems.00025-18

Farkas, K., Cooper, D.M., McDonald, J.E., Malham, S. K., de Rougemont, A., Jones, D. (2018) Seasonal and spatial dynamics of enteric viruses in wastewater and in riverine and estuarine receiving waters. Science of the Total Environment, 634:1174-1183 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.04.038

Farkas, K., Peters, D.E., McDonald, J.E., de Rougemont, A., Malham, S. K., Jones, D. (2017) Evaluation of Two Triplex One-Step qRT-PCR Assays for the Quantification of Human Enteric Viruses in Environmental Samples. Food and Environmental Virology, 9(3):342–349. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12560-017-9293-5

Hassard, F., Sharp, J. H., Taft, H., Le Vay, L., Harris, J. P., McDonald, J. E., Tuson, K., Wilson, J., Jones, D., Malham, S. (2017) Critical Review on the Public Health Impact of Norovirus Contamination in Shellfish and the Environment: A UK Perspective. Food and Environmental Virology, 9(2):123–141. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12560-017-9279-3

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